The day has come! Have a great 10th Anniversary of Black Sails Premiere! We have promised you a fanbook, and we deliver! A big thanks and a mug of rum to everyone who participated! We have no words to express our love and gratitude!
Everyone can look through and download it, just go here > [google disk link]
Remember to celebrate today! Tag your celebratory posts with #10YearsBlackSails and #BlackSails Let's show our love to the world!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FANDOM!
PS. We will reblog everything that goes into the tag, as quickly as we can! If we miss something, let us know! For more celebratory craze, go to our twitter > [twitter link]
In honor of my favourite show celebrating its 10 years, here is a fanart of my favourite characters and probably the best written characters I’ve had the honor the follow on screen.
Today in 2014 the first episode of Black Sails was released on starz 4 seasons, many colorful characters, tons of inspiration and more than 25 artworks! It's hard to find a words to describe HOW MUCH I LOVE this show, this story... The Black flag fluttered behind my back in a darkest days and gave me support that i was neded. I want to thanks each and everyone in this fandom, cast and Black Sails team 🔥❤️
Yay mateys it's 10 Years of Black Sails ahoy~
Profound thanks to @tobys-walrus-crew for the generous invite to contribute with the Black Sails Fanbook!
I quickly rushed to make an new original artwork to show how this fandom still grips me deep from the dephts and was such a big part of my artistic progression!
To compare and remember I am sharing my second Cpt. Flint that inspired the new one <3
Don't forget to check out the amazing creatives people have contributed!
So I just remembered I did this video as part of my Master's Degree program. Localizing this video was a challenge but it was very fun! (There are a few mistakes in this, but you get the gist, lol)
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Black Sails was a show I stumbled on when the finale was airing and I binged the whole thing in like a week. I adore this show and I still think about so many moments, particularly the bitter sweetness of the last episode.
I'm definitely overdue for a rewatch. But this is truly one of the greatest, most underrated shows of all time.
Did I build this ship to wreck?
Good God, under starless skies
We are lost, and into the breach, we got tossed
And the water is coming in fast.
— Ship To Wreck, Florence + The Machine
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the best show ever, the 10th Episode of Reading Between the Lines Podcast has just dropped!
This month, I’m featuring Professor of English Literature, Dr. Alex Tankard.
Dr. Tankard and I had an amazing and lengthy discussion about all things Black Sails, but in particular, as Flint relates to Luciferian lore in literary texts like Paradise Lost. In discussing Flint’s “darkness” they touched on the themes of “otherness” and the demonization of neurodivergence in Colonial Literature, as it relates to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Robert Louis Stephenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Additionally, we talk about gender and sexuality in the 18th century and how Black Sails gets it SO historically RIGHT!
Dr. Tankard is no fan of John Silver, so if you don’t want to hear criticism of his character and his choices, this may not be the episode for you, however, you’d be missing some amazing insights from a truly engaging lecturer. Fortune favors the brave!
Additionally, I want to again thank @tiofrean for her absolutely incredible cover art, generously donated to the podcast. This piece is truly stunning!
The emperor writes, "How should you be? You should be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds. It stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, 'How unlucky that this should happen to me.' But not at all. Perhaps say instead, 'How lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened and I'm not afraid of what is about to happen.' For the same blow might have struck anyone, but not many who would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint."